Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To restore to sound condition after damage or injury; fix: repaired the broken watch.
- v. To set right; remedy: repair an oversight.
- v. To renew or revitalize.
- v. To make up for or compensate for (a loss or wrong, for example).
- v. To make repairs.
- n. The work, act, or process of repairing.
- n. An instance or a result of repairing. Often used in the plural: My car is in the shop for repairs. We checked the repairs before returning his car.
- n. General condition after use or repairing: in good repair.
- n. Something that has been repaired.
- v. To betake oneself; go: repair to the dining room.
- v. To go frequently or habitually: repairs to the restaurant every week.
- n. An act of going or sojourning: our annual repair to the mountains.
- n. A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To restore to a sound, good, or complete state after decay, injury, dilapidation, or partial destruction; restore; renovate.
- To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; give indemnity for; make good: as, to repair a loss or damage.
- To fortify; defend.
- To recover, or get into position for offense again, as a weapon.
- Synonyms To mend, refit, retouch, vamp (up), patch, tinker (up).
- n. Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury, or partial destruction; supply of loss; reparation.
- n. Good or sound condition kept up by repairing as required; with a qualifying term, condition as regards repairing: as, a building in good or bad repair.
- n. Reparation for wrong; amends.
- n. Attire; apparel.
- To go to a (specified) place; betake one's self; resort: as, to repair to a sanctuary for safety.
- To return.
- n. The act of betaking one's self to a (specified) place; a resorting.
- n. A place to which one repairs; haunt; resort.
- n. Probably, an invitation or a return.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of repairing something.
- n. The result of repairing something.
- n. The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
- v. To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
- n. An act of going on vacation.
- n. A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
- v. To transfer oneself to another place.
- v. to pair again
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To return.
- v. To go; to betake one's self; to resort; ass, to
repair to sanctuary for safety. - n. rare The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
- n. rare Place to which one repairs; a haunt; a resort.
- v. To restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury, dilapidation, or partial destruction; to renew; to restore; to mend.
- v. To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
- n. Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss; reparation.
- n. Condition with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a frequently visited place
- n. a formal way of referring to the condition of something
- v. set straight or right
- v. move, travel, or proceed toward some place
- v. give new life or energy to
- v. restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- v. make amends for; pay compensation for
- n. the act of putting something in working order again
Etymologies
- From re- + pair. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English reparen, repairen, from Old French reparer, from Latin reparāre : re-, re- + parāre, to prepare, put in order; see perə-1 in Indo-European roots.Middle English repairen, to return, from Old French repairier, from Late Latin repatriāre, to return to one's country; see repatriate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Description: black 4dr sedan,300se, all the toys, sold new/54000 looks great owend by one family, car starts; engine fine needs trans. coolant line repair@ tires; will sell for parts or repair can be seen in franklin!”
“Sullivan KM, Lorenz HP, Adzick NS: A model of human fetal skin repair is deficient in transforming growth factor beta.”
“Lorenz HP, Longaker MT, Whitby DJ, Harrison MR, Adzick NS: Scarless fetal skin repair is intrinsic to the fetal fibroblast.”
“They were very apologetic, and immediately dispatched a repairman -- the word "repair," as it's affixed to the front portion of his name, suggesting that the man would remedy the calamitous dearth of high definition Uzbekistani infomercials that were once a part of our lives.”
The Huffington Post: Martin Marks: Your Guide to Hurricane Preparedness
“If it leaks, the repair is usually as easy as adding some caulking at the inside of the shower at the intersection between the wall and the base.”
“KING: I want to send my very best to dame Elizabeth Taylor, going into the hospital for what she describes as the repair of a leaky heart valve.”
“It may seem that continuing the dam in the desert or the elephant whistle in repair is a rediculous waste of time and we ought to abolish the relics forthwith, but we could always get that thousand-year flood or elephant charge.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » The First Amendment and Advertisements of Legal Prostitution
“Presently the cost of economic, and - peace - of mind - repair is very high and inevitably to be faced for years to come.”
CNN Radio: Examining American's level of trust in government
“If the 1.5 billion for earth science, aeronautics, hurricane damage repair is being reviewed. the 2 billion more has almost no chance. including a big boost for NASA likely aimed at helping the space agency build its new moon rocket this should be interesting.”
“A couple of points, however: It's not at all clear from a fundamental viewpoint of the hypersonic aerodynamics involved that tile repair is ever going to be a very easy thing.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘repair’.
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EN - archaic words
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fix
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New Grims
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drive, race, start, stop, screech, turn, park, crash, zoom, wash, repair, rusting and 35 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
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Beknownst1981's list
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
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Misc. Words.
Words I like to use, words I like but may forget.
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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a few of my favorite words
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INTERP - VOCABULARY
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